Friday, March 24, 2017

Congressional Progressive Caucus healthcare plan

Given the defeat of Trump(don't)care, now might be a good time to see what they've proposed for healthcare in their 2017 Budget. Let's get busy and support this.

Affordable Health Care

Repeals excise tax on high-priced healthcare plans for workers and replaces it with a public option.

Implements drug price negotiation for Medicare.

Allows states to transition to single-payer health care systems.

Expands access to mental health care and treatments for opioid and heroin addiction. The full budget is here. See pp. 13-14 for more details. Also see the Economic Policy Institute's evaluation here. Just the bullet points follow. See it for details. It would:Finally complete the economic recovery.